Host Liz Purvis returns to The Foxfire Dispatch after a couple months away, explaining she needed the break while starting a new job and moving into a new home. In this minisode, she skips a full news breakdown and leans into an “Even Art Is Political” segment, reading Ada Limón’s “A New National Anthem” and reflecting on its tension of critique and belonging, then sharing her own poem of the same title, written after Limón, about loving a place that keeps trying to make you leave and continuing to show up for people told their voices don’t count.

She outlines what’s ahead for season two as North Carolina heads into the summer of 2026 and toward the general election: following congressional races, amplifying down-ballot and judicial races, discussing progressive infrastructure work, featuring more interviews, and including more art and cul ...